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Subject: bug#29402: Failure to cross-compile GNU Hello for armhf-linux target
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:13:50 +0100
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To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
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Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'm trying to build it using the following command, invoked from the
> Guix source tree:
>
>   ./pre-inst-env guix build --no-substitutes --target=3Darmhf-linux hello

[...]

> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... Invalid configuration `armhf-linux': machi=
ne `armhf' not recognized

The argument to --target must be a GNU triplet, not a Guix =E2=80=9Csystem
type.=E2=80=9D

GNU triplets have the form CPU-VENDOR-OS, which often looks like
CPU-KERNEL-OSABI.  In this case, you want

  --target=3Darm-linux-gnueabihf

HTH!
Ludo=E2=80=99.